[GladesGuru]

Au contraire, my fellow Freeper. The comments are as I described them. Perhaps you missed the humor due to having accepted the basic premise of hte PETAPersons - that animals are comparable in value to humans. They aren't.

Not even the Irish wolfhounds, which I have been fortunate enough to have had three of ( a breed which men have valued enough to go to war over), were anywhere comparable to the least of men. Repeat - animals are not furry people.

As for cats, I have with me right now what has been called the most people centered of cats, a fluffy white cat which is an attention sink, so to speak.

Yet DemoCat (so named because he's always there for a free lunch, and feels entitled!) is just a cat - while I am attached to Democat, and take good care of DemoCat, if I had to choose between it and any human, the human comes first.

Why? Because I am human, not an animal. As was said long ago, "to each his own".

Animals are just animals, and humans do have a sense of humor.

One more thing - the PETAPerson belief system really is antithetical to both my Unalienable Rights, and to private property. To paraphrase the Big Indian in the comic strip Tumbleweeds, speaking of the Little Indian, 'Non likum little man." And there are few of less intellectual stature than PETAPersons.

No, I don't think you are one of them, but I do detect something of a tinge of their faulty premises in your post. Nothing personal intended.

[quantim]

Fair enough, dry humor especially here comes at a risk.  No, not I'm a PETA member - too much a carnivore to qualify.

However, the 'sport killing' of pets and associated wisecracks are disturbing to me particularly on a forum such as FR that should be setting an example of responsibility. There are hundreds if not thousands of youngsters that read here daily.  I could catalog a hundred negative pet remarks in the last week, they're just not funny. 

Jeffrey Dahmer started out this way...this is just one recent example:

Police Say Child Beat, Tortured Kitten

Police: 11-Year-Old Allegedly Tied Cord Around Cat's Neck, Swung It

 INDIANAPOLIS -- An 11-year-old girl has been placed on home detention on suspicion that she beat and tortured a kitten that later had to be euthanized because of its injuries.

Police said they believe the girl tied a cord around the cat's neck and swung it in the air like a lasso Saturday.

An Indianapolis police officer who was called to investigate saw the girl slam the kitten down, causing the animal to cry out, police said.

The girl was taken to a juvenile detention center on a misdemeanor charge of animal torture. She was later put on home detention and is scheduled to attend a court hearing Oct. 13.

The kitten suffered severe injuries and infection, and therefore needed to be euthanized, the city's animal care and control division said.

"There are indications from our officer's report that the animal was infested with maggots and, in fact, had its rectum ruptured over the course of the alleged torture," the division's Jeff Bennett said.

The kitten was one of several cats that live in a garage on a property near the girl's home.